Out the door at 10:25 AM to ride the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. The beautiful weather continued for today’s bike ride encouraging me to ride 33.41 miles, moving the week’s total to 160.04 miles and June to 417.53 miles, 52 % of my goal for the month.

Weather during the bike ride: 86 (61% humidity, 71 dew point), fair, wind variable 7 mph. Finish 90 (53% humidity, 70 dew point), a few clouds, wind N 8 mph. I started including the dew point because it reflects the moisture in the air a little differently than the humidity percentage. My biking kit feels comfortable even though the temperature is 90 which the low humidity (for the coastal area) helps foster.

Strava tells me today’s effort is consistent with my usual rides. Nothing wrong with that but I think I need to add some intervals to push the effort up some; maybe using the 12 gear on the rear cassette. Physical data from the ride:

• average heart rate 132 bps (75% of max)
• max heart rate 154 bps (88% of of max)
• average power 117 watts
• max power 381 watts

I attempted to find the northern trail head of the Atascocita Hike & Bike trail off of W. Lake Houston Parkway on some side streets south of Upper Lake Drive but I didn’t find the entrance. I will ride from Kings Park Way north and see where it takes me.

Traffic is light now that school is out and the ride back into Kingwood and crossing Kingwood Drive is much easier helping to finish the ride at 12:52 PM.

Friday the weather will start looking more like the typical Houston summer: 90+ degrees and higher humidity.